How To Do Time: Part 1

By Alan Ellis and J. Michael HendersonFebruary 7, 2018, 11:10 AM EST

Most lawyers are understandably unable to advise a first-time federal inmate as to what it will be like in prison. Rarely do they ever get beyond an attorney visiting room. In a four-part series of articles, we, the co-authors of "Federal Prison Guidebook," with the help of Philip S. Wise, retired Bureau of Prisons assistant director of heath services, offer answers to many questions attorneys, their clients, and their clients' family and friends may have.